"...the week that changed the world."

Nixon meets Mao Zedong

On February 21, 1972, President Richard Nixon became the first United States President to visit the People’s Republic of China. While it may have seemed like one country extending a hand to another, the trip was a maneuver to drive a wedge between red China and the Soviet Union, and changed the course of the cold war...

 

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